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The Six
Emily's POV
"Peter winds up and goes for another wicket!" Peter narrates the game as he bowls the ball
He throws the ball and it hits Edmund in the leg. I grab it from where it was on the ground.
"Ow!" He yelled
"Whoops! Wake up, Dolly Daydream!" Peter said
"Can't we play hide and seek again?" Edmund asked
"I thought you said that it was a kid's game" Peter said
"Besides, we can all use the fresh air" Susan adds
"Not like there's no air inside" Edmund said
I threw the ball back to Peter and look over at Lucy and Jackson. They were both reading a book under a tree. We asked them to join our game, but they said that they wanted to read and I don't think Lu wants to play with Peter anyways.
"Are you ready then?" Peter asked, breaking my train of thought
"Are you?" Edmund questions back
Peter bowls the ball and Edmund hits it hard, in fact, too hard, it smashes through an upstairs window and crashes into a suit of armor. The Six of us run upstairs and look at the broken window and suit of armor on the floor.
"Well done, Ed!" Peter said, sarcastically
"You bowled it!" Edmund defended himself
I heard Mrs. Macready yelling.
"It's the Macready!" I said
"Run!" Peter urged
We ran all around the house but all of the doors were locked. Finally, we were inside the room with the wardrobe. Edmund runs to the wardrobe door and opens it.
"Come on!" He said
"You've got to be joking" Susan adds
"Come on!" Edmund exclaims. I sign and drag Lucy along with Jack into the wardrobe. Edmund climbs in after us and then Susan after him. Peter climbs in and clicks the door shut. We start backing up to what they believe will be a wood paneled wardrobe, but Jack Lucy and I all know otherwise.
"Get back!" Peter whispers
"Susan you're on my foot!" Peter exclaims.
"Peter!"
"Ed you are on my toe!" I hear Susan yell.
"I am not." He retorts back. Suddenly Lucy bumps into me and I fall backwards accidentally pulling Peter down with me. His eyes widen with shock as he glances around the snowy forest.
"Impossible!" Susan says
"Don't worry, it's probably just your imagination" replies Lucy sarcastically.
"I don't suppose saying we're sorry would quite cover it?" Peter asked
"No. it wouldn't" She said
Suddenly, Lucy threw a snowball at Peter and Jack threw one at Susan.
"But that might!" She said with a smile on her face
Peter and I throw one back at them which starts a snowball fight. I throw one at Edmund that hits him in the arm.
"Ow!" He yelled "Stop it"
"You little liar!" Peter yelled
"You didn't believe them either!" Edmund said
"Apologize to Lucy" Peter said
Edmund stays quiet.
"Say you're sorry!" Peter yelled
"Alright! ``I'm sorry" Edmund said
"That's alright, some little children just don't know when to stop pretending" Lucy said
"Maybe we should go back" Susan says, rubbing her arms making it very apparent that she is freezing.
"Can't we at least take a look around?" Edmund asked
"I think Lucy should decide" Peter said
Lucy Jackson and I look at each other "Mr. Tumnus!" we yell in unison
"well, Mr. Tumnus it is" Peter said
"Wait, you two have been here before?" Ed asks pointing and Jack and I
"Well yes, we came with Lucy the first time, we just didn't want to tell you and have you think we are crazy. Plus we believed you would all have to see it yourselves to believe it." I reply.
"Whatever the matter, we can't just go hiking in the snow, dressed like this!" Susan says
Peter walked into the wardrobe and comes out with some coats. He hands one to me, Jack, and Susan.
"Here" he says when he gets to Susan
"Peter, these don't belong to us." She protests, trying to find any way not to stay here.
"Well, I don't think the professor will mind, and if you think about it, logically," he said, handing a coat to Lucy. "We aren't even taking them out of the wardrobe"
He hands one to Edmund.
"But that's a girl's coat!" He argues
"I know" Peter replied, simply as we all turn and trek off to Mr. Tumnus' house
Peter's POV
I don't like it that Emily is mad at me. I want to say sorry and I thought now would be a good time. I noticed that she was at the back walking with Jack so I purposely slowed down until she was next to me and we were out of ear distance from the others.
"Emily, I'm sorry -" I started
"No Peter, I should be the one who's sorry." She interrupted me "I said something out of pure anger and I shouldn't have."
"You're not mad?" I asked
"Peter, I can get mad at you, but you should know that I can't stay mad" She said
I put my arm over her shoulder and we caught up with the others.
"We're almost there" Lucy said
We continued walking and Lucy started telling us about Mr. Tumnus' house.
"You'll love it. He has cakes and tea and -" she stopped talking
She stopped walking and I saw why. The door to the faun's house had been ripped off its hinges. Lucy ran towards it.
"Lucy!" Em and I screamed at the same time
We ran after her and Jack Susan and Edmund ran after us. We were all inside the house looking at the disaster. I heard something glass crack, Edmund had stepped on a picture of a faun.
"Who would do something like this?" Lucy asked
"Peter, what's that on the wall?" Susan said
I looked at the wall she was talking about. It was a note. I pulled it off the wall and read it.
The Former occupants of these premises, the Faun Tumnus, is under arrest and awaiting his trial on a charge of High Treason against her Imperial Majesty Jadis, Queen of Narnia, Chatelaine of Cair Paravel, Empress of the Lone Islands, also to comfort her said Majesty's enemies, harbouring spies and fraternizing with Humans. Signed Maugrim, captain of the Secret Police, Long live the Queen.
"Now we really should go" Susan said
"But we have to help him!" Lucy argued
"Sorry Lu, it's out of our hands" I said
"You don't get it, do you?" Em said "We're humans! He helped us and she must have figured it out!"
"Maybe we should call the police" I said
"These are the police!" Susan reminds me
"Don't worry Lu, we'll think of something" I said
As we all speak I can hear the sound of birds in the trees.
"Did that bird just 'psst' at us?" Em asks, as we all speak I realize I can hear the sound of birds in the step outside and hear a rustling from the bushes. A beaver jumps out.
"It's a beaver" Lucy said
I hold out my hand, the beaver stares at it and then sits upright.
"Well, I ain't gonna smell it if that's what you want!" It said
"Sorry..." I said, sheepishly
Emily and Lucy are trying not to giggle while Edmund and Susan are shocked, Jack on the other hand is full of laughing.
"Lucy Pevensie?" He asked
"Yes?" Lucy replied
The beaver hands her a handkerchief with her initials on it.
"This is the handkerchief I gave to Mr-" she started
"Tumnus. He gave it to me just before they took him" Mr. Beaver said
"Is he alright?" Jack asks once he is recovered from his laughter.
Mr. Beaver looks around. "Further in" he whispered
Emily, Lucy, and I start to follow him but Susan grabbed my sleeve and stopped me.
"Peter, what are you doing?" She asked
"he says he knows the faun" I say
"He's a beaver, he shouldn't be saying anything!" She retorts
"Is everything alright?" Mr. Beaver questions
"Yes, we were just talking" I reply
"That's better left for safer quarters" he said
"He means the trees" Lucy tells us
We walk for a while and finally make it to the Beavers' dam.
"There it is, home sweet home" Mr. Beaver said
"Oh, what a beautiful dam, Mr. Beaver" Lucy complimented
"Merely a trifle" Mr. Beaver said
"Is that you Beaver? I find you've been out with Badger again I'll... oh, those aren't Badgers. I never thought I would live to see this day!" I hear another beaver say, "You've couldn't have give me ten minutes warning, look at this fur"
"I would've given you a week if I thought it would help" Mr. Beaver says, chuckling
"Well, you must be hungry. We'll see if we can get you some food and... some civilized company" She said, looking at her husband at the last part
We walk inside and sit down. We sit down at the table, but there wasn't enough room for all of us, so Edmund sat on the stairs.
"Fish and sticks, dears" Mrs. Beaver offers us
"Is there that we can do for Mr. Tumnus?" I asked once everyone had started eating
"Well, there's hope!" Mrs. Beaver said
"Yeah, loads full of hope, Aslan is on the move" Mr. Beaver told us
"Who's Aslan?" Edmund asks sparking Mr. Beaver to start laughing.
"Who's Aslan... you cheeky little brighter" He replies in between laughs.
Mrs. Beaver lays a hand on his shoulder and he stops laughing when he sees that everyone's serious.
"You don't know?" He asked
"Well, we haven't actually been here very long" I said
"He's only the king of the whole wood, the real king of Narnia, and he's waiting for you at the stone table!" He told us
"Waiting for us?" Emily asks
"Look, Aslan's return, Tumnus' arrest, the secret police! It's all happening because of you!" He says
"You're blaming us?" Susan asked
"Not blaming you dear, thanking you" Mrs. Beaver told her
"There's a prophecy, When Adam's flesh and Adam's bone sits in Cair Paravel enthroned, evil times will be over and done" He says
"you know, that doesn't really rhyme" Susan pointed out
"I know, but you're missing the point" Mr. Beaver tells her
"It's been told that three sons of Adam and three daughters of Eve will defeat the White Witch and restore peace to Narnia" Mrs. Beaver said
"And you think we're the ones?" I asked
"Well you'd better be, Aslan's already figured out you're army!" He said
"I think you've made a mistake, we're not heroes!" I said
"We're from Finchley!" Susan continued
"I think it's time we were going" I say
"But what about Mr. Tumnus?" Lucy say
"Sorry Lucy, it's out of our hands" I tell her, only trying to protect her from harm.
"Thank you for your hospitality" Susan says as we all get up, "But we really must go."
"Ed, time to go. Ed?" Emily says looking around the room, we meet eyes and realize what has happened, "I'm going to kill him" We say in since
"You may not have to" Mr. Beaver said "Has Edmund ever been to Narnia before?"